Ultimate Software and NetSuite announced a strategic alliance to integrate the UltiPro HCM solution and the NetSuite ERP suite at Ultimate’s recent Connections 2015 conference. In addition to the products’ integration, the two cloud software companies are now partnering to provide each other’s solutions in the respective HCM and ERP enterprise software spaces. Read More

Sage has announced a new Sage Net Promoter Score (NPS) Program for its North American partners. The goal is to measure customer loyalty data and subsequent financial impact to help business partners provide consistent customer experiences, gain insights to better serve customer needs, and strengthen customer relationships. Read More

Epicor ERP version 10 is now TEC certified in the ERP and financials solution spaces. Epicor ERP software is an enterprise-wide solution that is capable of supporting medium and larger businesses in functionality and scalability while remaining user friendly, with a logic that even relatively inexperienced ERP software users can easily comprehend. Read more in this blog post about the Epicor ERP 10 certification from TEC's Aleksey Osintsev. Read More

In recent years, while other industries and verticals were moving more and more into the cloud, manufacturing was still mainly an on-premise ERP game. That's beginning to change, and Plex Systems has been at the forefront of that shift. TEC's Aleksey Osintsev went to the annual Plex analyst Summit recently and saw cloud ERP in action on the shop floor. He reports on his observations and takes a look at the Plex Manufacturing Cloud and what it has to offer to manufacturers in 2015 and into the future. Read More

Dundas BI is the latest enterprise business intelligence (BI) offering to join the TEC Certified team of BI products. TEC BI analyst Jorge García offers some insight into the vendor's software development approach and gives a sneak peek into the product’s functionality, which make it a flexible yet robust BI solution. Read More

DOPAG, manufacturer of metering and mixing systems for single and multi-component polymers and part of the Hilger u. Kern Group, recently selected IFS Applications for its operations, especially for its strong project management and reporting capabilities. Read More

Firstronic, a maker of electronic components for automotive, industrial, and medical industry customers, recently expanded its Plex Manufacturing Cloud software to a new plant in Mexico. The cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) software rollout took just 90 days. Read More

SciQuest and Transcepta have announced a partnership to automate and improve the quality of invoice capture processes. The goal is to reduce cost per invoice processed and speed up time to payment. Read More

The new attune Fashion Suite is a set of pre-configured solutions deployable in the cloud and on premise to address key areas of the fashion business, including inventory, cross-channel visibility, and allocation. The attune Fashion Suite “best practices” suite across merchandising, logistics execution, and finance aims to enable fashion companies to more quickly implement and derive benefit from SAP FMS. Read More

TEC's principal BI analyst Jorge Garcia delves into SAP’s recent release of SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA), one of the most important releases in years for SAP. A totally new SAP ERP suite especially designed to take full advantage of HANA, S/4HANA exploits HANA’s high performance and real-time capabilities, and promises to deliver tangible business and technical simplification, as well as a radical new design and user experience. But deployment may be tricky for some adopters, as S/4's... Read More